![]() ![]() ![]() Eleven years after the publication of his first book, a collection of short stories entitled Drown (1996), Dominican American writer Junot Díaz published The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the Sargent First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007, and the prestigious Pulitzer Prize the following year. ![]() It will also frame this novel within the tradition of the novel of the Latin American dictator and, in particular, within the narrative cycle about the Trujillato. This purpose of this essay is to evaluate Junot Díaz (1968-)’s role as a native informant in his debut novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) as well as the anxiety of influence that has affected his writing and his unacknowledged debt with Magical Realism. ![]()
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